22 months

Our little lovey is starting to develop her own distinct personality, "MINE!!"... get where I'm going? She is very sweet and loves her Mommy and Daddeeeeee and Dabee (Grandy) and Gramsie (yet to have a name other than MAMA?) 

Day by day our girl is saying more and more...
slamming her head... saying, "this, this..." and pointing outside and saying "ope, ope".  Meaning take me outside, open the garage door, put on my helmet and let me ride my bike, rather push me on my trike.

What does the....
Duck say? First of all a duck is a "guk". And it says quack quack
Cow say? Baaaaa
Sheep say? Baaaa
Chicken say? Bock BOck BOCK
Little chicken say? spoken softer... Bock BOck BOCK and sometimes at the coaxing of Dabee Beep, beep, beep.
Snake say? ssssss

Hands me her "bink" and says, "yucky".. in other words wash my paci please momma

What is the magic word? What do you say? psssssss (please)

uppie has gone by the wayside... to up.

In answer to who is Mommy's girl? She used to raise her hand, now she says "I do"! Um Ok, El. So we've started to tailor our questions to meet her responses. "who wants to go to the childrens museum" "I do!"

When standing in either kitchen, hers or ours, she likes to say, "Cook"...

When she hears the dog whine, cry, howl, or bark, she says , Bark bark, but when asked what a doggie says, she says woooof.

There are so many more, but these are a few I wanted to savor for myself.

New words 19months 1 week

Pepper
Bow ( she points to her hair)
Moon
Zuchini (cini)
Mom? Mom? Mum?
bone
Grandy (This week it's Dabee)
Banana (Lala)
Balloon (lala)

New party tricks:
Standing on 1 foot
Excellent jumping (and actually leaves the floor)
Cat tails (leg out behind her)
Flamingo (foot on knee)

Ellie's on veggie strike this week :)

I got to spend the week with Ellie and we had a great time. Went to the Hingham public library, and Scituate library for Mama Steph (she's great) and had a play date!!!  I felt like a stay at home Mom this week, and loved spending time with my girl!

New words today! just 19 months

Moon!
Pepper
Bow (like for her hair)

New stuff!

I came back from a week long business trip and felt as if my girl had changed so much! She is babbling more and more, and imitating things that I do. Her new word this week was "stove" or "ooovvve" as she says it.

Her new favorite toy is the POTTY! We bought one and she could not wait to sit in it, meaning, in the cart at the store and ever since! We've not managed to land anything in the potty yet, but she sure does love it.

Ellie is 18 months

and such joy. She’s becoming a little person. She squeals with excitement, she throws fits, she kisses and hugs with abandon. We love her SO much.  

This was her 2010 Christmas card picture, and it reflects her personality!

Ellie continues to amaze me

Our little girl has expanded her vocabulary at 15 months.
Books- Bubbies
Bubbles: bubbs
Bib- Bub
Daddy- Dada
Grandy- Daddy
Shoes- Shhhhhs
Socks- Shhhhhhs
Dog- Doggie

Ellie's firsts

First Word: Dada of course. :)
First Word that we could recognize other than Mama, Dada:  SHOES! Can you believe it? Said this at 12 months. 2nd recognizable word: Bubbles (buba). Diaper is 3rd word... At 13 months you are trying to say so much, and we can tell. Blueberries, block, cheese just to name a few.
First steps: 11 months and Mumma got to see it!
Learned to crawl: 8 months
First teeth: bottom 2 at 8 months

Highlight of my day

This morning you woke up at 5am. I was trying to get to work early because I'm woefully behind. I went into your room to find you standing in your crib. I know all you needed was the beloved pasi to go back to sleep. So, there I am, crawling on all fours feeling around in the dark on the floor looking for pasi. Ah... found it. I handed it to you and you rolled over and went back to sleep.

On to the shower (5:05am). After getting out of the shower, you were awake again. Not sure why you are waking up so early? Bad dream? Yucky diaper? Daddy was in there with you in his arms. He needed to brush his teeth, so he handed you to me. To freshen you up with a new diaper, I flicked on the light... and you shook your head back and forth and squeezed your eyes shut, so I knew you still wanted to sleep. I shut off the light, picked you up and you gave me a big hug (sigh :)) and pointed at something. I think you were looking for Oscar (our dog). But, I didn't want you to wake up too much. So we rocked and I rubbed your head and back. Ellie, this is the best part of my day. To feel your little body resting on my chest is the best. I could feel you start to relax, and your muscles twitched to tell me you were falling back to sleep.

To rock you for those 10 minutes at 5:30am was the most heavenly feeling. I love being your Mom.

First Weeks with Elliana

Our little Ellie belly as made a huge impact on our lives. Little did I realize how hard it would be to shower, brush my teeth and eat a sandwich (without spreading it over several hours). That said, we would not change a thing. We are thrilled with our little girl.

Welcome to the world Elliana Harrison

Today we welcomed Elliana "Ellie" Beth Harrison into the world. All 8 pounds, 21 inches came roaring into the world at 6:48 am after what seemed like an eternity of labor (of love). In our humble opinion, she's beautiful!

Here are some pictures that my Mother took right after she was delivered... we are so proud to welcome her to the family.

Waiting for our new arrival

37 weeks and counting :)...

The Ellie Belly is getting bigger and bigger and her Mama to be is getting swellier and swellier. We just can't wait to meet the little cheeky thing. Ever US tech who sees her comments on her cheeks, and I say, "just like Mama".